Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye , 5 November 1911 - July 6, 1998) is an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his day. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 movies and various episodes of The Roy Rogers Show radio and television. In his many movies and television episodes, he appears with his wife, Dale Evans; its golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. Her performances were broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 to 1957. His productions usually featured sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George "Gabby" Hayes, or Smiley Burnette. In his final years, Rogers lent his name to the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain.
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Biography
Early life
Rogers was born by Leonard Slye, son of Mattie (nÃÆ' Â © e Womack) and Andrew "Andy" Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family lives in a tenement house on 2nd Street, where Riverfront Stadium will be built (Rogers later joked that he was born in second base). Dissatisfied with work and city life, Andy and his brother Will built a 12 x 50 foot (3.7 m²x15 m) house of scrap wood, and in July 1912 the Slyes traveled to the Ohio River. towards Portsmouth. Wanting a more stable presence in Portsmouth, they bought land to build houses, but the Great Floods in 1913 enabled them to move ship houses into their property and continue to live there on dry land.
In 1919, the Slyes bought a farm at Duck Run, located near Lucasville, Ohio, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Portsmouth, and built a six-room house. Andy Slye soon realized that the farm itself would not provide enough income for his family, so he took a job at the Portsmouth shoe factory, stayed in Portsmouth for a week and returned home on weekends, bringing presents after the work day. An important gift is a horse where the young Len Slye learns the basics of horseback riding. Live on a farm without radio, family make their own entertainment. On Saturday nights, they often invite the neighbors to square dance, where Len will sing, play mandolin, and call a square dance. He also learned to sing during this time, and he and his mother would use different yodels to communicate with each other across distances on the farm.
Len attended high school in McDermott, Ohio, but after he finished his second year there, his family returned to Cincinnati, where his father worked at another shoe factory. Realizing that his family needed his financial help, Len quit school and joined his father at the factory. She tried to attend night school, but after being teased for falling asleep in class, she quit school and never came back.
In 1929, after her sister Mary and her husband moved to Lawndale, California, Len and her father quit their factory work, packed their 1923 Dodge, and drove the family to California to visit Mary. They stayed for four months before returning to Ohio. Immediately upon his return, Len had the opportunity to travel again to California with Mary's father-in-law, and the rest of the family followed in the spring of 1930. The Slyes rented a small house near Mary, and Len and his father found a gravel truck job for the project road construction.
In the spring of 1931, after the construction company went bankrupt, Len went to Tulare, California, where he found work picking peaches for Del Monte. During this time he lived in a forced labor camp similar to that depicted in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. The economic difficulties of the Great Depression are just as heavy in California as in Ohio.
Music career
After the arrival of Len Slye's 19-year-old novice in Lawndale, his sister, Mary, suggested that she audition for the Midnight Frolic radio program, broadcast on KMCS in Inglewood. A few nights later, wearing a Western shirt Mary had made for her, she overcame her shyness and appeared on guitar playing, singing and singing programs. A few days later, he was asked to join a local country music group, Rocky Mountaineers. He accepted the group's offer and became a member in August 1931.
In September 1931, Slye hired Bob Nolan, a Canadian, who was responding to a classified ad group at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reading, "Yodeler for long acting, to travel." Tenor is preferred. stayed with the group just in no time, but she and Len remained in touch. Nolan was replaced by Tim Spencer.
In the spring of 1932, Slye, Spencer, and another singer, Slumber Nichols, left Rocky Mountaineers to form the trio, which soon failed. Throughout the year, Slye and Spencer moved through a series of short-lived groups, including Cowboy International and O-Bar-O Cowboys. When Spencer left O-Bar-O Cowboys to rest from music, Slye joins Jack LeFevre and his Texas Outlaws, which are popular acting on local Los Angeles radio stations.
In early 1933, Slye, Nolan, and Spencer formed the Pioneers Trio, with Slye on guitar, Nolan on bass strings, and Spencer as lead vocalist. All three practiced for weeks perfecting their vocal harmony. During this time, Slye continued to work with her radio singing group, while Spencer and Nolan began writing songs for the trio. In early 1934, violinist Hugh Farr joined the group, adding bass sound to their vocal arrangements. Later that year, the Pioneers Trio became the Pioneer Kids when a radio station announcer changed their name because he felt they were too young to be a pioneer. The name was well received and in accordance with the group, which is no longer a trio.
In the summer of 1934, the popularity and fame of Sons of the Pioneers surpassed the Los Angeles area and quickly spread across the country through a short syndicated radio segment which was then re-broadcast throughout the United States. The Sons of the Pioneers signed a recording contract with the newly established Decca label and made their first commercial recording on August 8, 1934. One of the first songs recorded during the first session was "Tumbleweeds" written by Bob Nolan. Over the next two years, Sons of the Pioneers will record 32 songs for Decca, including the classic "Cool Water".
Movie careers
From his first film appearance in 1935, he worked steadily in Western movies, including a huge supporting role as a singing cowboy while still being billed as Leonard Slye in the movie Gene Autry. In 1938, Autry demanded more money for his work, and there was competition for a new singer cowboy. Many singers are looking for work, including Willie Phelps from Phelps's brother, who appeared in Western early films. Slye eventually won the contest and was named Roy Rogers by Republic Pictures, shortening his first name and combining it with the Will Rogers family name. She was assigned a lead role in Under Western Stars . Rogers became an idol matinee, a competitor with Autry as the nation's favorite singing cowboy. In addition to his own film, Rogers played a supporting role in John Wayne's classic Dark Command (1940). Rogers became the main attraction in the office. Unlike other stars, most of the main roles allow him to play a character by his own name, by means of Gene Autry.
In the Motion Picture Herald The Top Ten Western Money Laundering, Rogers enrolled for 16 consecutive years, from 1939 to 1954, occupied the first place from 1943 to 1954. He appeared in a similar place > Box Office polls from 1938 to 1955, holding the first place from 1943 to 1952. In the last three years of the poll he was second only to Randolph Scott. Both of these polls are only an indication of the popularity of the series stars, but Rogers also appeared in the Top Ten Money Makers Poll of all films in 1945 and 1946.
Rogers is an idol for many children through his movies and TV shows. Most of his postwar films were in Trucolor during an era when almost all other western Bs were black and white. Some of his films will turn into animal adventures, where Rogers' horse, Trigger, will go alone for a while with the camera that follows.
With money from Rogers movies and from public appearances going to Republic Pictures, Rogers carries a clause into a 1940 contract with a studio where he will have the right to resemblance, sound, and his name for merchandising. There are Roy Rogers action figures, cowboy adventure novels, and playsets, comic strips, Comics series of long-running comic books (Roy Rogers Comics) written by Gaylord Du Bois, and various marketing successes. Rogers is second only to Walt Disney in the number of items displaying his name.
The Sons of the Pioneers continued their popularity and did not stop performing from the moment Rogers started the group, replacing members when they retired or died (all original members are dead). Although Rogers is no longer an active member, they often appear as support groups in movies, radio and television, and he sometimes appears with them in the show until his death.
Rogers and Evans are known as adoption supporters and as founders and charity operators of children. They adopted several children. Both are vocal Christians after their marriage. Beginning in 1949 they were part of the Hollywood Christian Group, founded by their friend Louis Evans, Jr., organizer of Bel Air church. The group meets at Henrietta Mears' house and then at Evans and Colleen Townsend's house, after their marriage. Billy Graham and Jane Russell are also part of this group. In 1956, the Christian Christian Group became Bel Air Church. In Apple Valley, California, where they make their houses, roads, highways, and civil buildings named after their recognition of their efforts on behalf of homeless and disabled children. Rogers is also an active Freemason and Shriner and is well known for his support of their charity.
The famous Rogers and Evans theme song, "Happy Trails", written by Evans; they sing it as a duet to sign their television show. In the fall of 1962, the couple hosted a various Western-comedy program, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show , airing on ABC. It was canceled after three months, losing in rank for The Jackie Gleason Show at CBS. She also made many cameo appearances or guests on other popular television shows, starring as herself or other cowboy characters, as in an episode of Wonder Woman called The Bushwackers.
Rogers owns a Hollywood production company, which produces its own series. It also filmed other endeavors, including the 1955-1956 series of Western CBS West Brave Eagle, starring Keith Larsen as a young, peaceful leader Cheyenne, Kim Winona as the Morning Star, his romantic interest, and the Hopi Indian Anthony Numkena as Keena , adopted son of Brave Eagle.
In 1968, Rogers licensed his name to the Marriott company, which turned his Hot Shoppes restaurant into Roy Rogers Restaurants, which did not involve Rogers.
Rogers has a Thoroughbred racing horse named Triggairo, who won 13 career races, including the 1975 El Encino Stakes in Santa Anita Park.
Personal life
In 1932 a palomino donkey in California was named "Golden Cloud"; when Len got it, he changed his name to Trigger. In 1932, Len met an admirer named Lucile Ascolese. They were married in 1933 by peace justice in Los Angeles; the marriage failed, and the couple divorced in 1936. Len then went on a tour with O-Bar-O Cowboys and in June 1933 met Grace Arline Wilkins in Roswell, New Mexico, radio station. They married in Roswell on June 11, 1936, after corresponding since their first meeting. In 1941, the couple adopted a daughter, Cheryl Darlene. Two years later, Grace gave birth to a daughter, Linda Lou. A son, Roy, Jr. ("Dusty"), born in 1946. Grace died of complications from birth a few days later, on 3 November.
Rogers met Dale Evans in 1944 when they were cast in a joint film. They fell in love immediately after Grace's death, and Rogers proposed to him during a rodeo at the Chicago Stadium. They were married on New Year's Eve in 1947 at Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, where they had filmed Home in Oklahoma a few months earlier. Together they have five children: Robin Elizabeth, who has Down syndrome and died of complications with mumps shortly before her second birthday, and four adopted sons - Mimi, Dodie, Sandy, and Debbie. Evans wrote about the disappearance of their daughter in her book Angel Unaware . Rogers and Evans remained married until his death in 1998.
In 1955 Roy and Dale bought a 168-acre farm near Chatsworth, California, complete with farmhouse on a hilltop, extending it to 300 hectares. In 1965 after their adopted daughter, Debbie, was killed in a church bus accident in 1964, they moved to the 67 R Double R Ranch in Apple Valley, California, who lives in a nearby town.
Rogers is a Freemason and a member of the Hollywood (California) Lodge No. 355, Scottish Rite Valley Los Angeles, and Temple of Al Malaikah Temple. He is also a pilot and owner of Cessna Bobcat.
Death
Rogers died of congestive heart failure on July 6, 1998. He has lived in Apple Valley, California. She was buried at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, just like his wife Dale Evans three years later.
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Awards and awards
On February 8, 1960, Roy Rogers was honored with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Motion Pictures at 1752 Vine Street, for Television at 1620 Vine Street, and for Radio at 1733 Vine Street. In 1983 he was awarded the Golden Boot Award, and in 1996 he received the Golden Boot Founder's Award.
In 1976, Rogers and Evans were inducted into the Western Performing Hall of Fame at National Cowboy & amp; Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and in 1995 he was reinstated as a founding member of Sons of the Pioneers.
Rogers receives recognition from the State of Arkansas, appointed by the state's governor with the Arkansas Traveler certificate.
Rogers was also twice elected at the Country Music Hall of Fame, first as a member of Sons of the Pioneers in 1980, and again as a soloist in 1988. To this day, he remains the only person elected at the Country Music Hall of Fame two time. In 2001, Golden Palm Star in Palm Springs, California, the Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and Dale Evans.
Rogers' cultural influence is reflected in many songs, including "If I Had a Boat" by Lyle Lovett, "Roy Rogers" by Elton John on his 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and "Should've Been a Cowboy "by Toby Keith. Rogers himself made an appearance in the music video for the song "Heroes and Friends" by Randy Travis. Rogers is referenced in many films, including Die Hard (1988) in which Bruce Willis character John McClane uses the pseudonym "Roy" and comments, "I'm always a bit partial to Roy Rogers actually." In the American Dad TV series! , Roger's character uses "Roy Rogers" as a pseudonym in the episode "Roy Rogers McFreely".
Movieography
The box office rating
For several years, the participants chose Rogers among the country's most popular stars:
- 1942 - Most popular western star (following Gene Autry)
- 1943 - the most popular western star
- 1944 - 24 most popular stars in the US; the most popular Western star
- 1945 - the most popular Western star; 10 most popular stars
- 1946 - 10 most popular stars in the US; the most popular Western star
- 1947 - 12 most popular stars in the US; the most popular Western star
- 1948 - 17 most popular stars in the US; the most popular Western star
- 1949 - 18 most popular stars in the US; the most popular Western star
- 1950 - 19 (US); the most popular Western star
- 1951 - the most popular western star
- 1952 - Most popular Western star (for 10 years in a row) Discussion
- A "Hoppy, Gene and Me" also reached number 65 on Billboard Hot 100 and number 38 on the RPM Adult Chart Contemporary in Canada.
- "Do not Fence My Entry"
- "Hold Critter Down" is
- "Little White Cross on the Hill"
- "One More Ride"
- "Ride Ride Ride"
- "Pioneer Pioneer's Mother"
- "Tumbleweeds Tumbling"
- "Way Out There" (chants and yodeling)
- "Why, Oh Why, Have I Left Wyoming?"
- "Hold On Partner" (duet with Clint Black)
- "Path of Congratulations"
- Dale Evans
- Trigger (horse)
- Buttermilk (horse)
- Smiley Burnette
- Pat Brady
- Andy Devine
- George "Gabby" Hayes
- Roy Rogers Restaurants
- Roy Rogers Cocktail
- Earl W. Bascom, a cowboy artist who works with Rogers
- Notes
- References
- Official website
- Roy Rogers on IMDb
- Annual Roy Rogers Festival
- Roy Rogers comic book
- Profile in Turner Classic Movies
- Roy Rogers on the Internet Broadway Database
- Country Music Hall of Fame
- Roy Rogers on Outlaws Old Time Radio
- "Cinchset" Roy Rogers Show filming at Golden Oak Ranch
Albums in the chart
Single diagram
Music videos
Popular songs recorded by Rogers
See also
References
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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